Nagler, John Clemens (2022) Assessing Critical Thinking in Bachelor Psychology Students. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Critical Thinking (CT) has grown into one of the central educational goals around the globe. Nevertheless, testing critical thinking is in its infancy. Notably, the creation of "authentic" tests that can assess CT skills as near to real-world situations as possible, has been scarce. However, these in particular would help educators understand weather current teaching practices translate into later benefits when it comes to being active in the field. The current study aims to create an authentic test to assess psychological CT in students, the Groningen Critical Thinking Task (GPCTT). To test the convergent validity, we correlated participants scores on the GPCTT with scores on the Psychological Critical Thinking Exam (PCTE) (Lawson et al., 2015). The PCTE is a widely used test for CT in the field and suggested as assessment instrument by the American Psychological Association (APA, 2013). Based on research by Dibartolo et al. (2016) and Shavelson and colleagues (2019), we created an authentic essay-based exam that was subsequently administered to students at the University of Groningen (N = 78). The results showed no correlation between the GPCTT and PCTE. The GPCTT also failed to distinguish between psychology students and non-psychology students. While students’ inability to transfer their CT to an authentic test might have been at fault for the non-correlation, the later evaluation also showed deficits in the newly created measure. As an experiment it shows successful and less successful strategies, which will form considerations that can be taken into account when developing further versions of the GPCTT. Keywords: psychological critical thinking, measure, authentic
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Fratescu, M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2022 07:49 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2022 07:49 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/351 |
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